Coming to you for the second year in a row, O3 World is hosting Innovation Day, a three-hour string of lightning talks, live demos and interactions showcasing new and emerging technologies from Philadelphia’s top agencies and innovation labs on Friday, May 4th from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. during Philly Tech Week 2018 presented by Comcast.

Similar to last year, we’ll continue to discuss emerging technologies such as voice user interfaces, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and more! Participants will be sharing their real-life experiences with the technologies and demonstrate how they’ve used it to improve efficiencies and overall user experiences.

This year’s speakers include:

Lisha Davis, Head of Innovation Studio, Vanguard

Anatoly Polinsky, Director of Zeros and Ones, Chariot Solutions

Brett Bagenstose, The Baron of Pixels, Neo-Pangea

Mike Gadsby, Co-Founder and CXO, Lauren Slattery, Head of UX Strategy, and Dan Laufer, Developer of O3 World

Vue.JS is a rapidly rising contender in the world of Single-Page Application frameworks. It borrows a bit of familiar template syntax from AngularJS, and comes with the performance of React. You’ll learn the basics of this framework in a 1/2 day session with Chariot’s front-end developer experts.

You’ll learn how Vue components are created, how to communicate between components, generate content with both templates and JSX, write tests against your components, integrate routing, and manage state in vuex and externally with Redux.

Philadelphia Mini Maker Faire is a volunteer-organized, family-friendly celebration featuring local do-it-yourself science, art, robots, crafts, tech, music, hands-on-activities, and more. It’s an event where people show what they are making and share what they are learning.

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This event is jointly hosted by Temple and Villanova. The workshop will be on July 20th starting at 9:30 AM until 4:00 PM. There will be a lunch break and tours of the Villanova CAVE – An Immersive Experience. Attendees should bring a laptop and power cord to the event as many of the lectures provide opportunities to utilize software and other platforms commonly used in healthcare analytics.

The Fox Fall Connection is the premier networking event to promote your organization and discover a diverse source of talent exclusively from our business school. Network with MBA/MS and Fox undergraduate students from 17 business majors to fill your full-time opportunities and various internships.

A blockchain conference and workshop will be held in Center City Philadelphia on October 11th and 12th focusing on pharmaceuticals, supply chain and blockchain. ➡ https://chain76.org/ ⬅

This is the FIRST Blockchain conference in Philadelphia relating to supply chain in the pharmaceutical industry. The event host, William Entriken, is the lead author of the blockchain standard for non-fungible tokens (Ethereum ERC-721). Ernst & Young, Celgene, Johnson & Johnson, etc. will be attending the conference.

Also, the participants will walk away with actual blockchain development experience. Everybody in the room will deploy a smart contract!

NET/WORK is a technology job fair showcasing vibrant companies seeking talent and talented people seeking work. Nothing stiff or stuffy about it. The companies at NET/WORK are psyched to show off their company culture—and get to know you outside of your resume.

Take this opportunity to network and find job opportunities with companies in the Greater Philadelphia region and beyond.

Come and learn how to market yourself and your venture personally as a brand!

Tyra Ford is the Director of the Temple Professional Network out of the Office of Alumni Relations. In this role, Tyra is charged with building a robust program aimed at providing high-quality career-related programming, resources and networking opportunities that support Temple alumni in all phases of their career development and across a variety of industries. Prior to this role, she worked at the Fox School of Business, holding the dual role of faculty and Director of Client Development for Fox Management Consulting. In these roles, Tyra taught undergraduate marketing courses and led business development efforts, securing consulting projects for Fox’s MBA students and serving a range of clients from Fortune 50 firms to startups. She has also designed content for and facilitated professional development workshops for a wide variety of audiences. Tyra has strong entrepreneurial roots, having founded and run her own business prior to joining Temple.

Every year, Glassdoor releases its top 25 highest paying jobs. This year, almost half of them are in the tech field; if you’re thinking about getting into tech, now is the right time.

We’ll cover the different ways you can break into tech and outline the pros and cons of all the options within the local tech community. Then we’ll dive into the technical career opportunities that are available locally – from jobs you’ve heard of like front-end developer, to jobs that are new to the area, like developer evangelist.

You will receive a confirmation email and an email the day of the event from Eventbrite with the live webinar link.